Category: science education
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| June 8, 2012 | Posted by News under Intelligent Design, News, science education |
“These are not academic lectures that people watch because their grade depends on it.” more
How to confront Darwinism when spun through mainstream media
| June 7, 2012 | Posted by O'Leary under Darwinism, Intelligent Design, News, science education |
Why should we think that jobs were lost to China because most Americans doubt Darwin? more
Re the horse series in current Korean “past-sell-by-date” Darwin textbooks …
| June 5, 2012 | Posted by News under News, science education |
“… paleontologists do not now believe that any of these fossil horses are direct ancestors of any of the others … ” more
Great law review article on the problem of Darwinism in the schools
| May 25, 2012 | Posted by News under News, science education |
“This Article argues that by endorsing the teaching of only evolution, the government is, in essence, endorsing a view on religion: that a higher power does not exist. ” more
Broaden the Tennessee schools bill to include other subjects, says educational psychologist
| May 19, 2012 | Posted by News under Intelligent Design, News, science education |
“In addition to enhancing education, generalizing these laws protects them from constitutional challenge.” more
What Grade Niners are learning is settled science?
| May 19, 2012 | Posted by News under News, science education |
Unfortunately, where Darwinism is concerned, what students are learning is sometimes settled propaganda. more
And now for the good news … somebody spoke up
| May 18, 2012 | Posted by News under News, science education |
About the Darwin lobby’s misrepresentations. more
How to Talk to Your Professors About Your Darwin Doubts
| May 16, 2012 | Posted by johnnyb under academic freedom, Darwinism, Evolution, Free Speech, science education, Society |
There are two regular tragedies in the Intelligent Design movement. The first tragedy is the student who airs his or her doubts about Darwin, and a faculty member then makes it their life mission to block that student from a degree, or, if they get a degree, prevent them from getting any further. This sometimes… more
Darwin in the schools debate revisited in Texas?
| May 14, 2012 | Posted by News under News, science education |
“Here, politics play a significant role because the State Board of Education is an elected, rather than appointed, body.” more
“Enough is enough” — it is time for independent, community-based education, starting with independent education in origins science
| May 13, 2012 | Posted by kairosfocus under Education, Intelligent Design, science education, Science, worldview issues and society |
Yesterday, Dr Cornelius Hunter headlined (full story here) how a Washington, DC-based, bipartisan Governor- and Captains of Industry- led Next Generation Science Standards initiative is pushing for an evolutionary materialism-loaded programme of science standards. The standards are intended to be accepted and adopted “in whole, without alteration.” A clear warning sign in an age of… more
Liberals”more resemble the uneducated conservatives” in gullibility about science – analyst
| May 8, 2012 | Posted by News under News, science education |
“The liberals, on the other hand … never took seriously the complaints of establishment critics, never themselves questioned the science that the establishment produced.” more
Lecture room bores vent their frustration over the Tennessee science education bill
| May 4, 2012 | Posted by News under Darwinism, News, science education |
Academics need this intellectual junk food to avoid confronting the general falsity of Darwinist claims. more
They said it: Dr Nick Matzke (late of NCSE) vs UD commenter Joe on science as it studies “the usual course of the world” applied to signs of design
| May 3, 2012 | Posted by kairosfocus under Atheism, Design inference, ID Foundations, Philosophy, science education, Science, worldview issues and society |
In the course of the exchanges on Dr Matzke’s clip on what “science” says can and cannot be so regarding miracles, he has made an interesting comment, here at 15: . . . I still haven’t seen anyone present a good argument as to why we can’t just say that science is the study of… more
He said it: Newton in Principia, on rules of reasoning for experimental philosophy
| April 30, 2012 | Posted by kairosfocus under Education, ID Foundations, Philosophy, Science, science education, Science, worldview issues and society |
The ongoing debates over methodological naturalism have pointed us back to Newton’s Rules for scientific reasoning. So, thanks to Paul Halshall of Fordham University’s Modern History Sourcebook, let us cite for reference: ___________________ >> Modern History Sourcebook: Isaac Newton: The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy [Excerpts] [The Rules of Reasoning in Philosophy] RULE I We… more
They said it: Dr Nick Matzke vs Dr John Lennox on the Laws of Nature and Miracles
| April 29, 2012 | Posted by kairosfocus under Atheism, Culture, Education, ID Foundations, Intellectual freedom, Philosophy, Popular culture, science education, Science, worldview issues and society |
In the ongoing Methodological Naturalism thread, at no. 66, Dr Matzke is on record: massive observational evidence and the logic of our understanding of natural laws rules say that that miracle thing can’t happen. In short he holds that the laws of nature forbid miracles. (And recall, here, we are speaking about the late publicist… more
Attempt to repeal Louisiana’s “okay to teach Darwin’s flaws” bill fails
| April 28, 2012 | Posted by News under News, science education |
If, in four years, no one has come up with an instance of violating federal or state laws, the opponents of the bill should find something better to do with their time. more
Science is probably more fun as a work in progress anyway …
| April 26, 2012 | Posted by News under News, science education |
Will students need a universal swivel joint in their heads? more
Another cool graphic: Molecular clutch engaged, and disengaged
| April 25, 2012 | Posted by News under News, science education |
Caution: American or British students might conclude something illegal about Darwinism as the supposed chief source of innovation in life forms. more
Tennessee school bill: Academic freedom is just a front?
| April 23, 2012 | Posted by News under Media, News, science education |
If a science is built on dodges ( = Darwinism), it should just be renovated in favour of a science that confronts the facts. more
“Magnifying the Universe” — Fantastic Infographic
| April 23, 2012 | Posted by William Dembski under Education, Science, science education |
Here’s a fantastic infographic that needs to be in every science classroom. I’ve seen similar ones, but this is by far the best: The Universe made possible by Number Sleuth Be sure to look at this in full screen mode. Whether you love or hate ID, you’ve got to admit that this is one beautiful… more